2. Company
“Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy
Award ®-winning computer animation
studio” (pixar.com)
They make awesome animated movies
Toy Story
Cars
Wall-E
3. Size
Started out small
Bought for $10 million by Steve Jobs
(1994)
Sold for $7.4 Billion to Disney (2006)
Toy Story 3
Total world wide gross
$1,063,171,911
4. History (1984)
John Lasseter leaves Disney for
LucasFilm Ltd (Pixar)
Helps create Andre and Wally B
First animated short film
5. History (1986)
Steve Jobs buys Lucasfilm Ltd. and
creates Pixar
Luxo Jr. created
Presented at SIGGRAPH
Reason why lamp is Pixar’s “mascot”
First to personify inanimate objects
http://youtu.be/PvCWPZfK8pI?t=19s
6. History (1995)
Toy Story
First animated feature film
$362 million world wide
6,900,000 shares at $22 a share
IPO $140 million (Biggest IPO that year)
7. Since Toy Story
A Bugs Life Toy Story 2
Monster Inc. Finding Nemo
The Incredibles Cars
Ratatouille Wall-E
Up Toy Story 3
Cars 2
8. Interesting Facts
Pixar movies hidden Easter Eggs
Luxo Ball
Truck
Quotes or pictures from other movies
Characters
10. Secret Sauce
Best at what they do
They have a lot of “firsts”
Short animated films (having a story line)
Personifying inanimate objects
Computer graphic techniques
11. Prognosis
Bought in 2006 for $7.4 Billion by Disney
Still making great movies
Not a bad investment
Have to invest in Disney